The personal essay is an essential component of your application. How compelling it is — or isn't — can make or break your acceptance.

A graduate instructor who was placed on administrative leave after failing a Bible-based essay in an online psychology course ...

The Exodus story was a model of providential liberation and deliverance for Americans rebelling against Britain’s pharaonic ...

Two state leaders for free speech on college campuses commended the University of Oklahoma for its handling of the ongoing ...

For some at OU, the essay debate draws into question the value of an OU degree and the broader impacts to academic freedom.

Gov. Kevin Stitt is calling on the University of Oklahoma Board of Regents to review the results of an investigation into a student’s claim of discrimination over a Bible-based essay. Samantha ...

Division on whether an OU student should have received a zero on her essay, but most agreed that her free speech rights had not been violated.

At the beginning of an essay from this new collection – her third (or perhaps fourth, if you count the boutique volume of pandemic pieces, Intimations, from 2020) – Zadie Smith writes: “I’ve always ...

HISTORY MATTERS. By David McCullough. Edited By Dorie McCullough Lawson and Michael Hill. Simon and Schuster. 176 pages. $27. Popular historian David McCullough, who died in 2022, was a master of the ...

When I was growing up, a critic was a jerk, a crank, a spoilsport. I figured that was the whole idea. My favorite characters on “The Muppet Show” were Statler and Waldorf, the two geezers who sat in ...

I used to believe I taught the one genre that artificial intelligence couldn’t touch. For 15 years, I’ve guided college students through the deeply human work of personal narrative, helping them ...